From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_gate.net)
Date: Thu Oct 18 2001 - 16:39:34 EDT
Jane..
YOU can get away carring a big purse..
some of us guys can't.. :-)
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Cordially, :-)
Bill Morrow
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jane Loyless" <jloyless_at_netbox.com>
To: "ThinkPad Mailing List" <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 3:25 PM
Subject: Re: Air Travel with Laptops
> At 03:09 PM 10/18/2001 -0400, Donald MacQueen wrote:
>
> >i -never- check my laptop. they can lose my luggage, but
> >not my laptop.
> >
>
> Several years ago, I was on a job traveling 2-3 weeks each month for about
> 18 months. I got sick with pneumonia on one trip and packed everything
> except the notebook itself (2 extra HDDs, AC adapter, spare battery,
> floppies, docs, phone cable - all those things we all carry around) in my
> luggage. I then checked it because I was too sick to lug it through the
> airport to change planes.
>
> That was the one and only time that my luggage got lost. Fortunately, it
> did turn up several days later with all its contents intact, but I've
never
> pushed my luck again. Like Donald, my bag may get checked but not my
> notebook. I'll just go to carrying a *really* big purse like my
grandmother's!
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